Concluding our company’s off-site leadership retreat, the number one thing on my mind is how we continue to drive innovation with AI. There are so many things AI can be utilized for to better everything you do—both your work and your craft. Seeing how extensively and effectively Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be in driving innovation, AI has my full focus.
For me, it starts with AI making the mundane a manageable task. You know the mundane—it can be anything you do that often makes you think, I have to find somebody else to do this. With AI, you can accomplish the work yourself and discover a process that is significantly better.
In the tech world we live in, I am not the most technologically sound person—even in terms of using my phone with all its capabilities—but AI has hit me hard. Right now, I am reading a book by Mustafa Suleyman called The Coming Wave. It talks about the world being in probably the greatest transformational period in history. It looks all the way back to innovations like the wheel, the development of the printing press, the telephone, TV, and the internet, leading up to what AI can do now.
Research shows that the wheel was first invented between 4100 and 3100 BC. But it was another 5,000 years before the first rubber tire was invented in 1845—not exactly a fast track to changing the automotive world. AI technology, on the other hand, is developing at warp speed and, according to Suleyman, faster than anything we have seen before.
It is not a question of whether AI is here to stay, but how we are going to use it to make ourselves better, more productive, and, above all, make society as a whole better and more efficient. Driving Innovation is our company’s core value number five, and it starts every day with each of us thinking about where the world is going. With AI advancements coming one after another, I believe if you are not on the bandwagon, you’re already behind.